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I watched half a trailer. There's definitely a Birdemic vibe as far as acting goes.

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Over in TV groups they're commenting it's independent of the movies. Not sure how they're going to do it.

Someone brought up the fact that two producers had a sort of first right of refusal on any TV Trek, and they canceled Enterprise and kept Trek off the air until Paramount could fire them. Apparently they're gone now.

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You know, that movie stuck so little in my mind I didn't even know it was a musical. Twas the era of Star Wars and such.

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I watched it in theaters when it came out. I recall my eight year old self enjoying it, but not much else.

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Thanks. I blame a random quantum flux.

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Fun fact: I saw it at church during a youth group lock-in.

Is this going to make it onto youtube? I started watching the live stream, but when Teague said the youtube version wouldn't be as choppy I decided to wait for that.

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Knowing the internet, SOMEONE will eventually step up to fill this need. There's a geek somewhere who's saying, "I'd set up a site about commentaries, but this Zarban guy has already.... hey!"

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With adaptations, it's all about what is kept and what is cut. A different script writer would have ignored certain things as silly unneeded detail. Loved the Leather Goddess of Phobos reference.

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A lot of the fun comes from the script. On seeing Drew Goddard in the credits, my reaction was "Ah, that's why."

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Saw The Martian today. Fun movie. I enjoyed it more than Gravity, but I boil that down to the main character knowing what they were doing and not "accidentally" surviving much of the time. It does seem to be a Mary Sue, the creator going "well, if *I* was stuck on Mars, I't do THIS!", but it overcomes it. I'm amused by XKCD comparing it to 50 Shades of Grey. I especially liked the little touches, like what games were on the laptop. I hope this leads to a Leather Goddess of Phobos movie.

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As always, if you don't like Doctor Who, come back in three years. Everyone in front and behind the camera will be different.

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If he goes against his previous moral conclusion, it would be interesting. In Genesis of the Daleks, which we see clips from, the Doctor concludes the Daleks actually made the universe unite against them, and that was a positive. Thus he didn't destroy them when he had a chance.

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I don't get BBC America and didn't feel like buying the last season, so haven't watched any of the new Doctor until now (the BBC put this episode on YouTube). I was a bit underwhelmed. Lots of interesting ideas, but they seemed rushed and/or wasted. The bit with the sonic screwdriver was weird, and shows they're not really thinking ahead when writing episodes. If he had lost it last season between episodes, and just now we found out what happened, that would have been more interesting (assuming he didn't lose it last season  smile ). I was also very disappointed when the Master didn't make a snide remark when the screwdriver showed up. After all, the Doctor was without a screwdriver from his 5th through 7th regenerations (the writers taking it away as it made life too easy). The Master saying something like "You lost it AGAIN?" would have improved things.

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As is often the case, it depends on when you start and stop your data collection. Go back one more year and you Have Spiderman 2 winning. The previous three years had the Lord of the Rings films, with ':' in the titles, winning. At that point your theory takes hold again, as Terminator 2: Judgement Day was way back a decade earlier.

And thus proved the existence of God.

I doubt they used a matte. A black bag over his head would be the easiest way to do it, with maybe some hand painting around the edge.

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